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Recent Developments Ashley Pearson1
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Maksymilian Del Mar. 2020. Artefacts of Legal Inquiry: The Value of Imagination in Adjudication. Hart Publishing. 504 Pages. ISBN: 9781849468138. Artefacts of Legal Inquiry is an original epistemic exploration of contemporary common law adjudication that highlights the indispensable value of imagination in legal reasoning. Del Mar demonstrates how consideration of the legal imaginary in contexts that traditionally focus on rationality and logic can assist practices of inquiry and reasoning. Working through exemplar devices of fictions, metaphors, figures and scenarios, Del Mar demonstrates how an embrace of collective narrative construction, the affective dimension of the imaginary, and signals of artifice can enrich, and more honestly account for, the processes of adjudication.
Rosalind Brown‑Grant, Anne D. Hedeman and Bernard Ribémont (eds). 2020. Textual and Visual Representations of Power and Justice in Medieval France: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books. Routledge. 344 Pages. ISBN: 9780367887704. This edited collection details a broad spectrum of writings and imagery in medieval France from the late fourteenth century to the early sixteenth century. The volume collects itself around three key themes: images of the prince as a just ruler, the figure of the judge, and the relationship of the queen to justice. Each chapter is dedicated to deconstructing the textual and visual semiotics of a historical artefact, demonstrating how the artists and writers of France used techniques of allegory, symbolism, and satire to comment and critique on each figure and their relationship to power and justice.
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University of Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Australia
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Hans J. Lind (ed). 2020. Fictional Discourses and the Law. Routledge. 272 Pages. ISBN: 9781138604759. Presented alongside concepts of truth, reality, language, and function, this edited volume questions the presence and utility of fictionality within law. The contributions range from theoretical perspectives on fictionality (or falsity) and truth, to practical examples of legal fictions and legal interpretation, to exploring analogies of legal fictions with metafiction and literature. Following various interdisciplinary approaches by the contributors, the book seeks to move beyond discussions of textuality and narrativity as the commonalities between law and literature and focuses its efforts to consider the role of fictionality within law through a critical lens.
Kimberly Mutcherson (ed). 2020. Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten. 402 Pages. ISBN: 9781108442350. Feminist Judgments is a unique collection of case commentaries that reimagines existing judicial opinions with a new focus on reproductive justice. Separated into three categories that foreground female procreative choice, the book interrogates cases involving the right to reproduce (assisted reproduction, pregnancy discrimination), the right to not
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